The bold idea is to use specially designed software mounted on mobile phones to overcome barriers of distance and travel to train, supervise and support primary health care workers to deliver mhGAP-IG at the Point of Care.
To break the barriers between the formal and the informal sectors through dialogue and training to increase synergy and communication between the two systems by minimizing any harmful practices and enhancing complementary practices.
I am with the department of Psychiatry, Makerere University. I am developing and testing a culturally sensitive group support Psychotherapy model to treat depression in HIV positive individuals. 50 depressed HIV positive participants will be randomized to participate in the group support psychotherapy (intervention arm) and 50 depressed HIV positive individuals will be randomized to the control condition of education groups in which they will be provided with written and visual information regarding HIV and risk behaviors with no group interaction.
In Latin America, dementia affects more than 3 million people, a number expected to quintuple by 2050. In Bolivia alone, an estimated 40,000 people are thought to have dementia but less than 1% have been identified. Public awareness, appropriate care and effective infrastructure are non-existent. The result: patients have an unacceptably low quality of life and families are over-burdened.
In India, like everywhere else, families affected by the addictions of their loved ones experience high levels of stress. SAFE aims to adapt and adjust the evidence-based supportive intervention, the Five Step Method, to make it acceptable, safe and feasible to be delivered by lay counsellors in developing countries.
Community REcovery Achieved Through Entrepreneurism (CREATE): A new paradigm for recovery from serious mental illness in low-resource settings (Kenya) People with serious mental illness living in low income contexts often lack opportunities for meaningful employment and psychosocial support – key factors in recovery. CREATE will address this gap by developing a locally-viable social business model designed to employ people with mental illness. It will also support their overall function and well-being.
“Women could give hands to prevent mental disorders” is an initiative designed by Trang Nguyen and managed by Research and Training Center for Community Development Vietnam. Positive deviance approach is carried out by the local Women’s Union to promote informal care with focuses on early detection, prevention and rehabilitation.
Over two billion people in the world burn kerosene for lighting. Inhaled kerosene fumes are detrimental to human health, killing at least 1.5 million people each year. The primary users, women (who do the cooking) and children (who stay in the house), ingest the equivalent of smoking two packs of cigarette per day. This project will study the relationship between kerosene smoke and child health more closely. It will also evaluate the effects and effectiveness of clean LED lighting and home solar lighting systems on health.
Some 665 million people in India and 22 million in Nepal cook with solid fuels, leading to diseases that cause 4 million premature deaths, mostly among poor women and children, every year. A commercially-viable multi-fuel stove developed by this project will be optimized for burning dung, wood and agricultural waste, reducing toxic emissions by over 90%. For more information visit http://praktidesign.com"
Our project is an integrated innovation for basic public health needs which will be demonstrated in Odisha, India. Cleaner fuel from underutilized bio-resources will reduce cooking smoke, respiratory illness incidences and enhance food-fuel-and-income-security.